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When The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP; nearly 40,000 copies sold) appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management. Now, Enabling Knowledge Creation ventures even further into this all-important territory, showing how firms can generate and nurture ideas by using the concepts introduced in the first book. Weaving together lessons from such international leaders as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, along with their own first-hand consulting experiences, the authors introduce knowledge enabling--the overall set of organizational activities that promote knowl.Read more...

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When The Knowledge-Creating Company appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management. Now, Enabling Knowledge Creation ventures even further into this all-important territory, showing how firms can generate and nurture ideas by using the concepts introduced in the first book.Read more...

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Recommended in Manageris, April 2000 Von Krogh, Ichijo and Nonaka write from the deep and accurate conviction that the most important but hardest part of enabling knowing is nurturing the tacit dimensions of knowledge. * Dorothy A. Leonard, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School * ... not only carefully written and an interesting read, but it is also very practical and action oriented. The book is full of extremely useful frameworks and suggestions as well as case studies of successful companies in Japan, Europe, and the United States. It will clearly become a standard handbook in the knowledge management field. * Michael A. Cusumano, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of Microsoft Secrets and Competing On Internet Time * "Did I say I liked this book? My copy is already marked up, dog-eared, and tabbed with sticky notes. It resonates in a way few of the books in our evolving literature do, and at a time that KM practitioners are getting uneasy with the mechanistic approaches of information and organisational technology change agents. As I prepare for a new challenge in a new company, I am charged with some new language, fresh insights, and some new possibilities for opening upconversations and managing context. It's a good time for us all to have this book." Patti Anklam (director of knowledge management at Nortel Networks Global Professional Services. Patti was formerly with Compaq Professional Services), Knowledge Management, 9 June 2000Read more...

Enabling knowledge creation : how to unlock the mystery of tacit knowledge and release the power of innovation/George Von Krogh; Kazuo Ichijō; Ikujirō Nonaka; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.